Puntuacion. Signo de interrogación, signo de exclamación, punto. Cartel de puntuación. Poster. Anchor chart for punctuation. Bilingual education. Español. Gramática.

El clima

Do you have a crush on idioms? #INFOGRAPHIC #ESL #franchising

If you want to blend with locals, you should check this list of examples of Spanish slang for friend and the countries that use them. Here is a list of a good amount of Spanish words used in Latin America to refer to a close friend or dude. All in one place!

#frases

Thought I'd share a few quick anchor charts I have created with my kids with you all that I use to get our independent reading time up and going effectively. I start the year by introducing the three ways to read a book: "Read the Pictures", "Read the Words", "Retell the Story". I demonstrate all three to the students, then give them several opportunities to practice while I monitor their reading. Retelling is something we work on all year long! Another activity we do, which is very similar…

I've been working hard these past couple of weeks implementing my centers. Creating charts for my students in both English and Spanish is a challenge. We have multiple sources for the English but very few for the Spanish. This one is one I saw on a blog...not sure which one but I would like to give credit if you know where it came from. My students discussed what good writers can write about and we came up with this list. I added some clipart as a visual scaffold for my English only…

Browse educational resources created by Karen Saravia Orellana - Mama Bilingue in the official Teachers Pay Teachers store.

December is one of my favorite months in my classroom. I love the holidays, the decorations, and the BREAK! ;). Each December we embark on a "Winter Celebrations Around the World" unit, which is always just so much fun! At the beginning of last week, I introduced my students to the unit by giving them the opportunity to share some of their winter traditions and memories. Each child wrote down a favorite winter past time on a post-it, then we sat in a circle and shared them as a class. We…

This past week we have been focusing on how to be good citizens! After learning what a citizen is, we worked to come up ideas relaying things we could do to be good citizens of our communities! Yes, yes....I made a boo boo and used a sentence strip to cover it up rather than re-do the whole poster! You can barely tell right?! Here are some examples of what my kiddos wrote on their post-its: The next day we put our ideas into action. I shared with the kiddos that not only were we going to…

This week we have been focusing on character traits like it is nobody's business! To make it a little more relevant and exciting we have been tying it in with some good ole' winter reads! Here are the three titles we focused on this week: We started the week with !Me gusta el invierno! After reading, we worked together as a class to brainstorm words to describe our furry, red friend. Here are some that the kiddos came up with: We took the trait writing a step further the next day after…

Welcome to my OFFICIAL TEACHING BLOG! I'm super excited that I get to share the adventures of my 1st grade bilingual classroom with all of you! =)

I found something very similar to this on Pinterest. I regret that the link did not take me to anyone's blog, so I can't give due credit for the idea at this time. I wanted a version in Spanish, and this is what I came up with. If you like it, please leave feedback, or if you'd like to see something...

The following games accompany the post Playing Picture Card Games in Spanish. Click the links at the end of the article to download and print these games and a set of summer picture cards. Use the words on the cards as much as possible as you play. ¡Diviértanse! 1. La carrera Set out cards as [...]

Don't forget about our giveaway of Blooming Writers/El escritor floreciente! You can submit comments until noon CST tomorrow (Friday, February 24th)! There is a lot of emphasis on fluency these days. If a student is struggling with fluency in reading, we first identify what type of fluency work needs to be done. Does the student first need to develop automaticity with decoding and calling words? Or, if automaticity is already in place, does he need work with prosody to make his reading sound…